[mythtv-users] Recording drive disappeared...fine on reboot

Ian Evans dheianevans at gmail.com
Tue Aug 27 22:09:36 UTC 2013


On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Ian Evans <dheianevans at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
>> UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
>> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   001   001   000    Old_age
>> Always       -       1007688
>>
>
> Your load cycle count is very high and can lead to failure. Wikipedia says
> for 2.5" laptop drives the lifetime LCC is 300,000 to 600,000 (not sure
> about 3.5" desktop drives). You're at almost twice that, so you may want to
> consider a replacement drive before it fails. The Green drives tend to
> accumulate high LCCs because their idle head park timeout is very short (8
> seconds?). For WD Green drive use in a Linux application it is normally
> recommended to us the Western Digital utility WDIDLE3 (or idle3-tools?) to
> change that timeout to 300 seconds or so, or disable it altogether.
>
>
>
> I'll grab the idle3-tools. Is it something that needs to be run at each
boot or is once enough?
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